In a week when the federal government placed even more restrictions on women’s rights, there was a silver lining on the state level: Governor Jay Nixon (D-MO) vetoed an extreme abortion bill on Wednesday. House Bill 1307 would have tripled the mandatory waiting period before an abortion to 72 hours, which would have given Missouri the […]

North Carolina is the latest victim of extremism by the Tea Party freshmen swept into state legislatures across the country last fall: Republican state representatives in North Carolina voted to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the state budget Wednesday morning, ensuring that a provision to strip all federal and state money from Planned […]

June 15, 2011

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